Example sentences of "[vb pp] off on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Car No. 396 was destroyed by a bomb outside Croydon bus garage on 10 May 1941 and its remains dumped in Purley depot , to be officially written off on 30 November 1945 . |
| 2 | Now , for safety , the path was roped off on either side . |
| 3 | It can then be set off on new cases . |
| 4 | After the cover had popped off on 31 January , the infrared detectors recorded their first observation : a fluctuating signal due to the receding cover as it spiralled out of the telescope 's view . |
| 5 | Hemingway seems to have ‘ gone off on top doh ’ and fired all his big guns before the battle has even begun . |
| 6 | ‘ A rumour will be spread Tweed has gone off on another insurance investigation . |
| 7 | The site offices were taken off on 18 November . |
| 8 | The influence had already rubbed off on former team-mate Ally McCoist , who was dropped from a vital old firm derby in 1991 for going on a prohibited trip to the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 9 | Their habits , modes of thought , patterns of speech , style of drafting will have rubbed off on one another to the point where but a few free or tough or independent spirits resist mutation into a sludgy administrative amalgam . |
| 10 | This view seems to have rubbed off on foreign , non-Marxist interpreters of the passage of NEP , who as a whole are inclined to think that a cultural policy of laissez-faire was pursued throughout NEP . |
| 11 | According to Volodymyr Yavorivsky , the head of the commission , automatic safety systems were switched off on three occasions in the past year ( reputedly in order to boost power production ) . |
| 12 | instead of growing up straight look one of those things has broke off on that Alec |
| 13 | Shame about the result yesterday , but what a joy to see Hughes-less being sent off on live tv ! |